{"id":956,"date":"2025-08-12T16:50:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T16:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2025.walktalkazores.org\/?post_type=event&#038;p=956"},"modified":"2026-02-10T14:40:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T14:40:34","slug":"gestures-of-abundance-magma-non-temporary-art","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/2025.walktalkazores.org\/en\/event\/gestures-of-abundance-magma-non-temporary-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Gestures of Abundance: MAGMA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How do we listen to what the earth inscribes on bodies and what bodies return to the earth? This <em>station<\/em> invites us to think of body and territory as surfaces of inscription \u2014 mineral, epidermal, and symbolic layers where time, memory, and gesture accumulate. Between skin and earth, abundance manifests as material and spiritual reverberation, a language written in subterranean rhythms and reactivated through embodied experience.<\/p>\n<p>Sofia Rocha\u2019s installation <em>Buraco Azul<\/em> extends her research into ritual geologies and systems of listening to the earth. It creates a threshold-space where stone and gesture become speculative language: an architecture of connection between visible and invisible, a place of transition, attention, and bodily listening. The work unfolds into graphic forms tattooed on the skin, expanding beyond the gallery as incorporated mineral memory and a shared gesture of abundance. In dialogue with clay pieces from the Municipal Museum of Vila Franca \u2014 vessels, containers, and incense burners \u2014 it establishes correspondences between local heritage, ancestral matter, and ritual imagination.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Works on Display <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sofia Rocha (new commission)<br \/>\n<em>Buraco Azul<\/em> (2025)<\/p>\n<p>Works from Museu Municipal de Vila Franca do Campo (various objects, n.d)<br \/>\nThe Museum hosts a regional archaeology and ethnography collection featuring clay figurines, religious artifacts, ceramics, musical instruments, pottery, and remnants of the island\u2019s 19th-century orange economy. 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